I got seven non-helpful votes, and no helpful one, on this review of a very obscure book, suggesting that bug-collectors have zero sense of humor...
"True
bugs of the world" is an encyclopaedia covering all 92 families of
so-called true bugs, a rather nasty group of insects otherwise known as
Heteroptera.
The true bugs are not related to beetles, although they often look like them. Among the critters mentioned in this volume are bedbugs, bugs that live as parasites on bats, giant water bugs and even a bug that lives in the tidal zone!
The text is of the boring, scholarly variety. The sections on the natural history of the various families are quite brief. All illustrations are in black and white. This is not a book for the general reader (I mean, bedbugs?), but it's good for research libraries or advanced students of entomology. Especially if they're studying bugs!
Personally, I got a slight feeling of nausea when looking through this book the other day at one of our excellent libraries here in Stockholm. I say: kill them before they multiply!
The bugs, I mean...
The true bugs are not related to beetles, although they often look like them. Among the critters mentioned in this volume are bedbugs, bugs that live as parasites on bats, giant water bugs and even a bug that lives in the tidal zone!
The text is of the boring, scholarly variety. The sections on the natural history of the various families are quite brief. All illustrations are in black and white. This is not a book for the general reader (I mean, bedbugs?), but it's good for research libraries or advanced students of entomology. Especially if they're studying bugs!
Personally, I got a slight feeling of nausea when looking through this book the other day at one of our excellent libraries here in Stockholm. I say: kill them before they multiply!
The bugs, I mean...
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